HOD members beware

[Groovemeister]

Hey Randy,

Everyone's right, I was asking about the guy mailing you!

I get mails through hotmail like this all the time. I can understand the one's that try to sell you crappy Viagra and Medical Pills, even the ones that ask you for Penis enlargements, but the ones that are just gobbledegook - what are they for? Are they viruses? Are they to sell us something - I just don't get it!!

MP

[got_a_matchgrip]

GM/MP - boy you nailed it.

I get those same stupid ad E's, & at the bottom they always have some bullsh** they try to pass off as some enlightened philosophy. One or tw may be interesting, but mostly just foreign language misunderstood "gobbledy-gook" crap. At the top of the E it usually says some petty sh** like, "Good day to you, sir" or the like.

The person who comes up w software to track down & blow up these VERY annoying con-artist-BS-IDIOTS' PC's will make a fortune...off me alone [albeit a small one ;c)].

[Suspiria]

Thanks for the warning. Amazing what happens when you leave this place for two days [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[moosetication]

Originally posted by Groovemeister:
...but the ones that are just gobbledegook - what are they for? Are they viruses?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">The spurious text is an attempt to get them through spam filters. These work on "rules" which work on the appearance of certain things (key phrases, and so on) and their proportion to "non-spam" text in the mail. They're just trying to get the "non-spam" statistics up to get the mails through.

I tell you, if I had enough hardware and bandwidth I would D-O-S spammers until their servers melted.

[troutbrooke]

Spamming should be punishable by torture.

[Dazzler]

Stewart..... what's D.O.S? [img]redface.gif[/img]

[troutbrooke]

Denial of service. Basically, you bombard a web server with more requests than it can handle and its performance screeches to a halt.

[CLWarunki]

Originally posted by Dazzler:
a huckster? As in Dr. Huxtable? Maybe it's Bill Cosby?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Great minds think alike!

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[chrisbrady]

Yo Randy,
Chill baby [img]cool.gif[/img] I think GMeister General was refering to the guy that sent you the spam.
Love you [img]graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (but not in a "Viking with horns on his helment" kind of way)
CB

[troutbrooke]

Pato, son of the great one
it sucks eats your chichas to your under duck song and your also you suck yourself all the days


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